10/11/2012

The research firm comScore just released its monthly search market numbers in America for the month of September 2012. Bing’s search market was unchanged for the past two months in a row, maintaining 15.9% share of search in August and September, 2012.

Yahoo’s Bing-powered search dropped to 12.2% share in September, compared to 12.8% share in August, or a drop of 0.6% share.

The Search Alliance’s share of search market was 28.1% in September, compared to 28.7% share in August, or a drop of 0.6% share.

Google captured almost everything from Yahoo’s loss. Google increased to 66.7% share in September, compared to 66.4% share in August, or an increase of 0.3% share.

09/13/2012

Bing gained 0.2% share of search market in America in August 2012. As per data provided by comScore, Bing hit an all-time high with 15.9% share in August, compared to 15.7% share in July.

Since January 2012, Bing has gained a total of 0.7% share, while compared to one year ago, the formerly known as "Decision Engine" has gained a total of 1.2% share.

Yahoo’s search market share dropped to 12.8% share in August, compared to 13.0% in June and July (or, a drop of 0.2% share).

Search market share for the combo of Bing and Yahoo which is also known as the Search Alliance, was unchanged. Bing gained 0.2% share, while Yahoo dropped 0.2% share. In term of total share, the Search Alliance hit 28.7% share in August.

Google’s search market share dropped slightly to 66.4%, compared to 66.8% share in June and July (or, a drop of 0.4%). The world’s largest search engine suffered the largest drop of share during a span of one month.

08/22/2012

Bing continues to gain search market share in America in July 2012. According to comScore, Bing reached a new record high with 15.7% share in July, compared to 15.6% share in June, or an increase of 0.1 points.

Yahoo’s search market share was unchanged during the past two months and remained at 13.0%.

The Search Alliance, combo of Bing and Yahoo, captured a total of 28.7% share in July, compared to 28.6% share in June, or an increase of 0.1% share.

Google’s search market share was unchanged between June and July, as the world’s largest search engine led the search market in America and remained with 66.8% share.

07/08/2012

Several tweets and job postings from Microsoft have revealed that Bing team is working hard to launch Bing Fund. This will be a new kind of angel investment to nurture startups and act as an incubator, as reported by Mary Jo Foley of Zdnet’s All About Microsoft. The angel investment efforts could help to bring new ideas to the Online Services Division.

Bing Fund’s landing page with orange color background shows text which read: "Thanks for stopping by. We're working on something fun and will have more to share soon."

06/25/2012

The “Doing Engine” releases more imagery that was taken from satellite or aircraft over North America, South America, Africa, Australia, Europe, and Asia. Total newly added maps almost equal to 38 million square kilometers.

Global Ortho Project was launched about one year ago and had accomplished significant works and hit about 85% of total works. For the latest release, Bing Imagery Technologies completed aerial photography over America and considered as 100% done. The team plans to complete photography over Europe within the next few months and be ready before the New Year of 2013.

06/19/2012

Bing launched a new sub-domain site to motivate its users to find something interested to do during summer of 2012. The new site is called the Bing Summer of Doing, or bing.com/doing. This new site will be updated on a daily basis and displaying several activities to encourage users to learn something new. There will be several groups of activities on weekly basis, including do-it-yourself (DIY), eating, and others

On the launch day, it was related to DIY-ing week. The first day set of keywords were “beekeeping for beginners” which shows several links on how to raising honey bees, beekeeping business, beekeeping equipment, etc.

06/14/2012

According to monthly search market data published by comScore qSearch, Bing's share of search market in May 2012 in America remained at a steady level with 15.4%, compared to April 2012 which was at 15.4% share.

Yahoo’s share of search market in May dropped to 13.4% share, compared to April which was at 13.5% share (or, a drop of 0.1%).

The Search Alliance Bing and Yahoo combined a total of 28.8% share in May, compared to April’s share of 28.9% share.

Google’s share of search market increased slightly to 66.7% in May, compared to April which was at 66.5% share (or, an increase of 0.2%).

06/12/2012

Bing partners with Qwiki.com a New York City-based company to enhance the search results with a new web app format. The web app combines images, videos, maps, infographics and voices. Qwiki is a well-funded startup with about $11 million in total funding so far. The combo of Qwikis and Bing will help users to find information and stuffs faster and help them to make better decision.

During the beta version, Qwikis will show up at the same line as Wikipedia search results. Bing team noted that the new feature will be integrated with other search results in the next few months.

06/08/2012

Bing Rewards announced two new sweepstakes as members must submit their entries by July 16. To celebrate the summer blockbuster movie, the team offers members a chance to win an Xbox game console with hand-free Kinect controller, 12-month free membership for the Xbox Live, and the Amazing Spider-Man video game bundle. In order to have a chance to win the Xbox 360 console pack with Amazing Spider-Man bundle, each submission requires 20 credits.

The second prize is a 12 month subscription for Hulu Plus. There will be 25 winners for this prize. Hulu Plus allows users to watch several top current and re-run TV shows, such as Modern Family, The Office, Gossip Girl, and others. Each submission requires 25 credits and ends July 16, 2012.